PARENT SUCCESS INDICATOR - DEVELOPMENT AND FACTORIAL VALIDATION

Responses from 612 Parent Success Indicators (PSI) by parents and chil dren were subjected to factor analysis. Data were factor analyzed to d etermine if the underlying factor structure of the instrument fit the hypothesized dimensions suggested by the position of 60 items on six s ubscales. The principal components extraction analysis produced 13 fac tors with prerotation eigenvalues greater than 1.0. A principal compon ent solution set at six factors yielded the best fit, accounting for 4 9.6% of the variance. The pattern of item-to-factor correlation sugges ted that the 60 items tended to fit the hypothesized pattern of subsca les.